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Waiting for LA Opera's 2015 production of what has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe," M° Ignazio Terrasi, Music Assistant Conductor at the LA Opera and LA Grand Ensemble Music Director & Conductor will introduce a production directed by Daniela Vismara and conducted by Andrea Battistoni e Stefano Vizioli / Orchestra and Cho...

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Join Connecticut members in celebrating Italian Heritage Month with an afternoon gathering in tribute to Luciano Pavarotti. We'll start with a delicious lunch at La Tavola, which was recently named one of the best Italian restaurants in the state by Connecticut Magazine. After lunch, we'll head to the Silas Bronson Library for its eighth...

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Se c'è un Paese dove abita la cultura musicale questo è gli Stati Uniti d'America, ma l'Italia è seconda per numero di istituzioni musicali. Lo dicono i dati presentati ai Primi Stati Generali della Musica ospitati da CremonaFiere. Negli Usa ci sono 138 Conservatori, in Italia 68, seguita da Spagna (52) e Germania (31).   Seguono il Portogal...

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The Philharmonic's 2014-15 season is opening on September 16 with "La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema." Presented in collaboration with Sugarmusic, the concert will be conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert; feature violinist Joshua Bell, soprano Renée Fleming, and singer/songwriter/actor Josh Groban; and include video projection combinin...

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by Jay Heater   As Patrick Tobin did his best Frank Sinatra to "My Way," a line of people waited patiently in front of a booth serving up spaghetti and clam sauce, sausage and peppers and meatball sandwiches. Right next door at Festa Italiana in Greenbrook on Saturday was Nino Ledi, a sixth-generation baker who was selling a selection o...

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Paola Quagliata is a singer who has worked in many of Italy's most important opera houses. Her repertoire consists mostly of baroque and 18th century music, both of which she has studied in-depth and performed with renowned musicians such as Ottavio Dantone, Gabriel Garrido, E. L. Banzo, Rubèn Dubrovsky and Roberto de Simone. However, she als...

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by Miles Hoffman From the 1400's to the 1700's, the Italian word viola was the general term for any stringed instrument played with a bow. Viola da braccio, or "arm viola," was the generic name for any member of what we now call the modern violin family.   And even though it was always played between the legs, the instrument we now call the...

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Washington Concert Opera will celebrate at the Embassy of Italy its 26th season with a festive Gala on Monday, March 18, 2013. The event will be under the patronage of the Ambassador of Italy Claudio Bisogniero and Mrs. Laura Denise Bisogniero, and it is part of the program of 2013 – Year of the Italian Culture in the US. Three hundred guests from...

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"I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear." – Giuseppe Verdi   200 years after his birth, we celebrate the anniversary of one of the most influential composers of operas of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Verdi. As 2013 marks his bicentenn...

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Un meltin pot di suoni, in cui si mescolano linguaggi musicali, stili e culture differenti, espressi attraverso le percussioni. Arriva a New York Common Pulse, il primo esperimento musicale della Grande Mela che mette insieme musicisti provenienti da tutto il mondo – Stati Uniti, America latina, Giappone, Spagna e Libano, per citarne alcuni – ognu...

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